Neue Betrugsmasche bei Studiengebühren hat einer Frau betrügerische Anschuldigungen in Höhe von 37.000 US-Dollar beschert – und keine Hilfe von Bank, Polizei oder Schule – Betrüger versprechen in betrügerischer Absicht ermäßigte Studiengebühren und zahlen mit gestohlenen Kreditkarten
https://www.cbc.ca/news/gopublic/tuition-scam-9.7115857
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Save yourself the time and skip to the 11th paragraph, where the article gets around to mentioning that she approved these transactions in her TD app at the urging of a scammer.
It’s not quite as cut and dried as „bank won’t help completely blameless victim“. But these scams are getting more and more intricate & difficult to detect, and who is responsible when someone gets scammed is going to continue to be a huge point of debate.
This is so absurd that because the banks won’t issue a chargeback, the universities just get to profit off this scam. It’s not like the money has gone into some unknown person’s bank account overseas. They know who has it. It’s also obvious this person wouldn’t pay tens of thousands of dollars to a university they don’t go to and for a stranger.
these scammers are also targetting student loan money, student loan money that was routinely written off by the feds, $160 million in 2019 alone. I can’t find any newer stats than that.
If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is.
If the bank is on the hook for this then what is stopping people from scamming the bank with fake scams
I’m not sure why any money was returned to this woman, she clearly participated in these transactions, while I feel for her what made her think she would be fighting bank fraud from her TD app? I am sure the bank isn’t responsible, so why should they ever take a hit for things like this?
This would be way less of an issue if ISPs would quit allowing call spoofing
Very strange as I have a 30 year old TD card and that bank basically rejects any and all out of character transactions. Constantly having to call to get approval for the transaction to go ahead. Constantly blocking the card even for small amounts.
Unless it’s my mother calling, I assume it’s a scam.
In my mind – what did the screen where those funds were being charged look like ?
Why was TD’s fraud alert not on when someone was repeatedly charging similar amts? All charged on Sep 26
A university will likely charge the whole thing at once, not in so many transactions.
TD Returned the money because if it went to a lawyer and they review this info it would be telling that the banks controls failed to recognize a pattern of fraud!!!
Banks and police don’t care, that’s why the scammers keep doing it. If no one stops them, they keep doing it. Let’s all the blame the victim, she wore the wrong outfit, she was asking for it.
Its her fault. The banks shouldn’t have to protect stupid people from themselves.
Its her fault, nobody else’s. She is getting an expensiv lesson on „No such thing as a free lunch“